# FUP ate my db

dg@dcs.st-and.ac.uk (dg@dcs.st-and.ac.uk)
Sun, 26 May 1996 06:22:32 PDT

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    >I fail to reproduce this. Admittedly, filereading directories gives erratic
    >results, but in our experience it never caused panics.
    >What machine type are you using? What OS?

    SunOS 4.1.3, server p4, I think.

    >What are the (relevant) contents of #235:more ?

    The line that did it was a fairly simple

    	player:tell_lines(fileread(path, ""));

    ...(path, "") because I'm putting the entire path as a single string.

    >Let me just remind you that FUP was developed on SunOS, and that the
    >developers take no responsibility for the results of using it, or stopping
    >to use it, as described in the copyright.
    >Reports about OS incompatibilities are welcome, as long as they include
    >enough information to make sense of them.

    Of course; I mean no criticism of the people who wrote FUP, which is an
    immensely useful patch. I'm just warning people that there's a potential trap
    here. I lost all work up to the previous checkpoint. Luckily, I was the only
    person logged in, and everything I'd done was saved to my scrollback buffer,
    but you can imagine cases where this would be disastrous.

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